Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-10
Pcrsnnala md Briefs.
The ST. James Hotel is closed.

Dr, George Ross returned to the city
yesterday.
Mr.. B. Alsop and family are at the
Cold Sulphur Springs.
Only civil cases were tried in the
Hastings Court yesterday.
Misses Norma and Ellen Cowman left
Friday for the mountains.
There will be no service at the Male
Orphan Asylum this afternoon.
Miss Katie Bell, of Vermont, Mass,
who has been visiting friends here, has
returned home.
Miss Kate Turner left Tuesday for
st. Louis. She will visit en- route re-
latives in Louisville.
Mrs. Ellen Welsh has returned from
New York after a long visit to her
friends and relatives.
Miss Mamie T. Pegram has left the
city to visit her friends and relatives IN
Tetersburg and Dinwiddic.
Mr.. VI. W. Henry has been elected
n governor Of the Mozart Association
rice Dir. Charles l.. Todd, resigned.
Miss Essie Lee. of south Fourth
street, has gone to visit her uncle, MIR.
Samuel Forsythe, of Noodbcrry, Md.
Miss Mamie Gibson, who has been
visiting friends in Denver, Col, will
return home about the 10Th Of Septem-
Der.
Mrs. r. CGbell Anderson and little
son Edwin, Of birmingham, Ala, are
visiting her husbands parents in the
city.
Every afternoon the river is dotted
with the Virginia Boat Clubs boats
containing parties of ladies and gen
tlomeD.
Miss Nellie Grace left Friday on the
steamer Wyanoke TO spend the sum
mer with relatives in New York aud
Brooklyn.
Miss Gussie Carter, OF ITO Grove
avenue, has gone 10 visit Hinton and
New Richmond, ". Va, to be absent
about SIX weeks.
The third annual meeting Of the Vir-
einia Mechanics Institute Will be held
tuesday night. A new Board OF Mana.
gers will be elected.
Miss Mcla G. Branch, of Petersburg,
who for the past six weeks has been
visiting Miss liudnall, OF this city, re-
TUNED home on Tuesday last.
Miss Lee Strein, OF Lynchburg, who
has been on an extended visit 20 her
aunt. Mrs Lee, of No. 3l3 north
Iwcnty-fourth street, left for home last
week.
Mrs. Rclon F. Aylwin, organist ct
st. PatTick's church, has just returned
home from pleasant trip, having been
a guest OF Mrs. PAGbus, at the hygc!a
Hotel.
Misses Rachel, Fannie. and Carrie
Van Wort, accompanied 10y their bro
Their Frank, will leave in few days Tor
Old Point for their usual summer va
cation.
A lawn party for the benefit o' Vona-
ble-Strcct BAPTIST church viii b. given
atJGurchs lawn, Str. cEcr's till, three
nights this week comm ncing to-mor-
Tow night
Misses Bette Csrou and Ida Kopple
are visiting f1itDGsin Norfolk. fc'ore
returning tLcy VII visit Ocean View.
Virginia Beach, Ola Point, -ui other
vatcriDgplaces.
b. T. REYNOLDS, car-traccr for fine
NcvpoIt-Ncws and Misslssipp.- alley
Railroad Company. returned 20 the
city Friday from an eXtonded trip
North and West.
Miss Fannie y. Ciemmitt. o. this
city. left on Thursday lat Tor Jones
boro'. Tenn. where she viii spend n
great part 81 the sumner with her
cousin, Miss Grsham.
Colonel Thomas Smith, now United
States District Attorney in New Mexico,
is visiting Virginia, and was III the city
yesterday, where he was warmly wei
coined by many friends.
Governor Lee yesterday removed the
political disabilities OF Spencer Green
Ccolored), who i'll 1880 was convicted Of
petit larceny in Dinwiddie county, ana
sentenced to be whipped.
Miss f. c. Rell, of Vermont, who
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Hawkes., Of No. 31S north Twenty
fourth street, left last week for Balti-
more and the Eastern Shore. Nd, to
spend the summer.
Mrs. Thomas +. HoHchens has gone
to Baltimore to visit her son, DR.. }.
Thomas nouchens. She will also go TO
Annapolis and Rochester Beach. She
is accompanied by hergraHdson, Master
Thomas f. Thiermann.
Mrs. Mamie f. Tenant, with her
little daughter Irene, left the city on
the 2:30 a. NJ. Danville train Thurs
day TO join her husband, j. d. Ten
nant, in Augusta, Ga, where she ex-
poets 10 make hr future home.
The Washington star Of yesterday
evening says editorially: Most OF our
exchanges, in dealing with the case OF
Miss Van Lew, fall into the error OF
saying that President Grant made her
postmistress Of Richmond. The Office
to which she was appointed was post
master, not postmistres.. The Federal
laws make few distinctions of sex in
establishing official titles. They hold
calamity or otherwise, according to the
point of view of the critic-that wo-
man who Is qualified to Gil a mans
place in public is capable of filling it
name and all That this idea is not
confined to politics is illustrated by the
recent act OF a firm OF publishers, who
have issued a biography of Margaret
Fuller Ossoli as one OF their "Men OF
Letters" series.
Police Court.
The following cases were disposed o
yesterday